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He wants us to educate ourselves to believe that our brethren love us,
and to believe that Christ loves us. Love begets love.
Do we expect to meet our brethren in heaven? If we can live with
them here in peace and harmony we could live with them there. But
how could we live with them in heaven if we cannot live with them
here without continued contention and strife? Those who are following
a course of action that separates them from their brethren and brings in
discord and dissension, need a thorough conversion. Our hearts must
be melted and subdued by the love of Christ. We must cherish the love
that He showed in dying for us on the cross of Calvary. We need to
draw closer and closer to the Saviour. We should be much in prayer,
and we must learn to exercise faith. We must be more tenderhearted,
more pitiful and courteous. We shall pass through this world but once.
Shall we not strive to leave on those with whom we associate the
impress of the character of Christ?
Our hard hearts need to be broken. We need to come together in
perfect unity, and we need to realize that we are the purchase of the
blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Let each one say: “He gave His life
for me, and He wants me, as I go through this world, to reveal the love
that He revealed in giving Himself for me.” Christ bore our sins in His
own body on the cross, that God might be just and yet the justifier of
those who believe in Him. There is life, eternal life, for all who will
surrender to Christ
In Unity There Is Strength
Strive earnestly for unity. Pray for it, work for it. It will bring
spiritual health, elevation of thought, nobility of character, heavenly-
mindedness, enabling you to overcome selfishness and evil surmisings,
and to be more than conquerors through Him that loved you and gave
Himself for you. Crucify self; esteem others better than yourselves.
Thus you will be brought into oneness with Christ. Before the heav-
enly universe, and before the church and the world, you will bear
unmistakable evidence that you are God’s sons and daughters. God
will be glorified in the example that you set.
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The world needs to see worked out before it the miracle that binds
the hearts of God’s people together in Christian love. It needs to see
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